She was the longest running tenant on the Asbury Park boardwalk, where she operated from a small one-room concrete structure called the "Temple Of Knowledge". Directed by Oliver Stone.Written by Ron Kovic and Oliver Stone, based on Kovic's best selling autobiography of the same name. It spans almost half a century of Springsteen's career, from as early as 1966. Thanks Domingo (dobama at Greasy Lake) for the Greek Some of the above info about the studio recording and the live performances is taken from Please contact me if you have scans for or info about any official release containing 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY) that's not mentioned on this page. The live 08 Feb 1977 version of 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY)was released on the You can contact me via the below form or by email: List of available versions of 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY) on this website:Bruce Springsteen -- The Unsurpassed Springsteen Volume 5 (Yellow Dog Records)Bruce Springsteen -- Born In The Studio (Archive Productions)Madam Marie's Temple Of Knowledge, 08 Nov 2009 (Keith Mallaby photo, used with permission)Bruce Springsteen -- The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street ShuffleBruce Springsteen -- The Essential Bruce Springsteen (2003 edition)Bruce Springsteen -- The Essential Bruce Springsteen (2015 edition) Based on the memoir of combat veteran Ron Kovic, the film stars Tom Cruise as Kovic, whose gunshot wound in Vietnam left him paralyzed from the chest down. The live 19 Sep 1978 version of 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY) was released on
Springsteen's single sold virtually nothing in German and that's why now collectors pay many hundreds of dollars for a stock copy. I'd sit across from her on the metal guard rail bordering the beach, and watched as she led the day trippers into the small back room where she would unlock a few of the mysteries of their future. Credit: Newsday. The first five tracks have not been previously released.Tracks 1 and 2 are from The Castiles era, track 3 is from the Steel Mill era, and track 4 is from The Bruce Springsteen Band era. See The band line-up on this track is Bruce Springsteen, Clarence Clemons, Danny Federici, Garry Tallent, Vini Lopez, and David Sancious, plus Suki Lahav who provided the "choir" backing vocals. A version recorded by The Hollies charted in North America and became a hit in Europe in 1975. Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 film about Ron Kovic, who after being paralyzed in the Vietnam war and feeling betrayed by the country he fought for, becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist..
Some of that period's setlists are incomplete or unknown, and therefore, the song must have been played on some more dates during the Born To Run Tour .
While painfully and awkwardly adjusting to his disability and a changing definition of masculinity, Kovic joins the burgeoning movement of antiwar protest, culminating in a climactic appearance at the 1976 Democratic national convention. We send our condolences out to her family who've carried on her tradition. Vietnam veteran, anti-war activist and author Ron Kovic, a Massapequa native, was The second film in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy moves from the brutality of war in Platoon to its equally traumatic aftermath. A powerfully intimate portrait that unfolds on an epic scale, Born on the Fourth of July is arguably Stone's best film (if you can forgive its often strident tone), and Cruise's Oscar-nominated role is uncompromising in its depiction of one man's personal anguish and political awakening.
"A few days following her death, Springsteen dedicated 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY) to Marie Castello during the 04 Jul 2008 The album's recording sessions can be split into distinct phases:The collection is fundamentally a 2-disc set (clocking at 153:37) compiling songs from all of Springsteen's studio albums to date plus his The album is a career retrospective consisting of 18 tracks. Well, if you you've got the poison, I've got the remedy A powerfully intimate portrait that unfolds on an epic scale, Born on the Fourth of July is arguably Stone's best film (if you can forgive its often strident tone), and Cruise's Oscar-nominated role is uncompromising in its depiction of one man's personal anguish and political awakening. 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY) is known to have been performed at least 54 times during the Born To Run Tour (73 know dates / 81 known shows, July to December 1975). --Jeff Shannon Castello's family continues to give readings at the Temple Of Knowledge, which has become a landmark on the Asbury Park boardwalk.Castello gained a following among celebrities who often stopped at Asbury Park to perform at the nearby Asbury Park Convention Hall, specially during the sixties. Well, something on the surface It kind of makes me nervous To say that you deserve this And what kind of God would serve this We will cure this dirty old disease. I also need scans for the following releases:Any additions, comments, or corrections to this page are welcome. See 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY) was written in mid-1973.